In this paper we discuss how to reconstruct 3D models from multi-view engineering draws by employing human engineers' approaches. Human's `divide and conquer' inter...
Objects in the world can be arranged into a hierarchy based on their semantic meaning (e.g. organism ? animal ? feline ? cat). What about defining a hierarchy based on the visual ...
Josef Sivic, Bryan C. Russell, Andrew Zisserman, W...
In this paper we examine a novel approach to the difficult problem of querying video databases using visual topics with few examples. Typically with visual topics, the examples a...
Jelena Tesic, Apostol Natsev, Lexing Xie, John R. ...
In this paper, we propose a novel framework to jointly recover the illumination environment and an estimate of the cast shadows in a scene from a single image, given coarse 3D geo...
Abstract. This paper presents a simple, yet effective method of building a codebook for pairs of spatially close SIFT descriptors. Integrating such codebook into the popular bag-o...